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Vegas: One Cop's Journey, a Novel from the Streets of Sin City
Vegas One Cop's Journey a Novel from the Streets of Sin City Author:Kim Thomas Cam Madden had a good job and a carefree bachelor lifestyle when he impulsively tried out for the police academy of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Now that he's mastered the theories of law inforcement in the academy, his education in its realities begins with field training and an ugly suicide call. — Learning the lesson... more »s of the street leaves scars on Cam's ego and more on his body, but it's even rougher on his off-duty relationships with women. It doesn't matter until he falls for Karrie Mac, a paramedic, whereupon making it work becomes all-important.
Their romance grows in a world of burglars, bums, purse snatchers, drug dealers, and homicidal idiots, no two of them alike but each to be dealt with according to endless regulations, some of which cannot work without being severely bent.
One Cop's Journey is in a sense every cop's journey, the story of finding his own place in a company of heroes, even if that company contains a disturbing proportion of bureaucrats, office politicians, and layabouts. Somehow the finest and the flawed manage to work together well enough to keep the barbarians at bay.